Mr. Speaker, as you know, it is a tactic of the member for Lachine-Lac-Saint-Louis to try to distract the opposition. These days, it seems as though the government wants to gag the official opposition. It is afraid to hear what our fellow citizens are telling us in our ridings.
I was talking about the St. Lawrence action plan to clean the St. Lawrence River. Listen to this: out of a budget of $19.2 million, this government took $6 million to commission studies on the cleaning up of the river. However, these studies were conducted in Miramichi, New Brunswick, several thousand kilometres from the St. Lawrence River. Where is the logic in that decision?
I would like to hear the member for Ottawa West tell us about the effect that this will have, other than to suggest the appointment of a commissioner of the environment.